Is the U.S. President Above the Law?

To be fair, the SCOTUS didn’t rule that the president is “above the law”; they ruled that the president can’t be prosecuted for something he did as an “official act.”

FWIW, this seems at least somewhat reasonable.  Should Truman have been subject to prosecution for the first and only use of nuclear weaponry?

Now, Trump can and will claim that the most egregious crimes he committed, e.g., inciting an insurrection, stealing classified government documents and sharing them with people with no security clearances, etc., are all official acts.

Maybe this is why we have so much attention on Epstein; it will be hard, even for Trump, to represent statutory rape as an official act.